A loudmouthed political talking head whose views tend toward radical right-wing (or, less commonly, left-wing) political positions often to the point of Type II Eagleland (even if he isn't actually American). A gadfly to any form of political compromise with what he sees as socialist or libertarian causes.

This is one of the newer political tropes, one which seems to have come to prominence in The '80s and The '90s with a rise in prominence of right-wing punditry in American media. It's usually a parody or satire of these types, and the right-wing version is probably more common. The Trope Maker was ABC's coverage of the 1968 US presidential elections, when ABC executives wanted something to stand out from conventional election coverage — in this case, the hiring of political polar opposites Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr. to take part in a series of debates.

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Comics

Superman had Dirk Armstrong, a character that existed for a few years in the late 1990s. A conservative columnist that was basically meant to be an Expy of Rush Limbaugh, same political views, same build and general appearance. At first an annoying unsympathetic character.

Double Subverted in V for Vendetta. It's supposed that "FATE", the computer that controls every single aspect of England, is capable of talking (has its own radio program, "The voice of FATE"). It's a trick, the voice is from General Ripper Lewis Prothero. That the government has managed to trick England population tell us what a Crapsack World it is.

Depending on the Writer, J. Jonah Jameson is one of these, with about 99% of his rants, editor's messages and TV shows being anti-Spiderman bile and at least one story having him hating on The Avengers as well, if not the entire Marvel superhero community, for the sake of variation.

To expand: that one story mentioned above has Tony Stark himself coming to Jameson and offering a massive amount of money with the explicit condition: "By the way, Spidey's an Avenger now, can I ask you to lay down the bile, if only a little?". Jameson took the money... and the day afterwards he ran a rant hating on all of the Avengers that essentially started as "you are not the boss of me". Take note that this was done a long time before Stark would have answered to that with him summoning a literal Army of Lawyers to sue for libel and potential breach of agreement, so the Avengers can only go "our arms are tied".

The Serenity sequel comic Leaves on the Wind opens with a pair of pundits arguing about the Serenity crew's broadcast that the Reavers were a result of an Alliance social engineering experiment Gone Horribly Wrong. A balding male pundit pompously calls BS on the whole thing, saying it's a hoax to discredit the Alliance, while the female one thinks the accusations should be investigated. In particular, the pro-Alliance pundit resorts to ad hominems against Mr. Universe (using his Robosexuality to paint him as a pervert) to discredit the message (Mr. Universe was already dead by the Alliance's hand when the message was sent; Mal just used his equipment).

Film

Right-wing talk show host Lewis Prothero in V for Vendetta, who staunchly supported the ruling regime, and called out its opponents with a lot of macho bluster.

The film Moon had a talk radio host who sounded a lot like Rush Limbaugh at the very end ( after Sam returns to Earth in an ore hopper, and supposedly tells the world what happened to him up there), who ridicules Sam's story thusly:

"You know what, he's one of two things. He's a whacko or an illegal immigrant. Either way, they need to lock him up. Line two!"

Howard Beale in Network is a more heroic example, though he's still pompous and quite possibly insane. His politics aren't explicitly left- or right-wing, instead being a broader "mad as hell" populism.

In A Face in the Crowd, Lonesome Rhodes is already well-established as a pompous TV entertainer when he decides to use his popularity to bolster a Senator's ailing political campaign.

Airplane!: "They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say let 'em crash."

Literature

In the "Advise and Consent" series by Alan Drury, Walter Dobius embodies this trope, with assistance on the TV front from Our Anchorman Frankly Unctuous (that is the name actually used.) Note that Walter is not, repeat, NOT Walter Lippman.

In L. Neil Smith's The Venus Belt, this role is taken by the Walter CronkiteExpy "Voltaire Malaise", whose catchphrase is "That's the way it looks."

In Rex Stout's 1949 Nero Wolfe mystery, The Second Confession, there's a rabidly anti-Communist radio commentator who Wolfe finds so repulsive that he makes firing him part of his fee.

Live-Action TV

The Blue Bloods episode "Inside Jobs" features Curtis Swint, who is one of these with a side of anti-immigrant, borderline white supremacist rhetoric. When Swint announces that he's going to be doing a live show in a New York City theatre, Commissioner Frank Reagan must face the To Be Lawful or Good dilemma of ensuring Swint's constitutionally protected freedom of speech rights in spite of his own disdain for Swint's message, not to mention the absolute disgust of Mayor Carter Poole and Reverend Potter (both of whom are black). He ends up foiling Mayor Poole's attempt at Bothering by the Book to shut down the theater where the host is making a live broadcast (due to the discovery that the theatre's boiler is overdue for an inspection), then places Swint's police protection inside the theater and arranges for it to be comprised entirely of non-white officers led by a beefy black sergeant.

The Good Wife Episode 1x11 "Infamy": Duke Roscoe was a caricature of Glenn Beck that continued to goad people into believing that a woman had murdered her missing baby until she killed herself out of grief and he said on television that he was glad she had done that. He makes the following trial for wrongful death a very hard process by continuously defending his First Amendment rights and anything related (like how he got his info). At the end of the episode the baby girl was found alive, plus evidence that he was misinformed about the dead mother by a (slightly) Loony Fan comes to light.

Suzanne Fulcrum, the host of the Show Within a ShowAmerican Crime on the 2006 series Justice constantly called the Accused Person Of The Week guilty. The twist was that 1) sometimes the Accused Of The Week was guilty (but the audience didn't learn that until the episode's end), and 2) some of her continuous badgering about said accused person being guilty was because she had a grudge with lawyer firm TNT&G (and Ron Trott specially) and their continuous use of spin doctoring for the defense's sake.

This was based on an actual letter that was addressed to Schlessinger, asking, among other things, why Americans aren't allowed to enslave Canadians.

In the mid-'90s, MTV had an outspoken conservative VJ named Kennedy. On Murphy Brown, Lansing decides to shake things up at FYI by hiring the outspoken conservative MTV VJ McGovern, (though it is eventually revealed he was under the influence of Demerol before his triple bypass surgery).

Sliders has an Alternate Universe where America lost their Revolutionary War, and the Sheriff of San Francisco (who just happens to be an alternate version of one of our main characters, see picture above) becomes a colonial British version this trope.

The Babylon 5 season four finale "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" has a trio of them attacking John Sheridan's motives in creating the Interstellar Alliance, describing him as a megalomaniac who was mostly in it to glorify himself (which nonetheless had overall good results). They're completely upstaged by a surprise appearance by Delenn, who calls Sheridan a good man and gives them a nasty What the Hell, Hero?.

Professional Wrestling

Ashley America's a reactionary with her own news show who seems to be what happens when someone read's Stephen Colbert's book "I Am America, And So Can You" and takes it seriously.

The Xtended Terran Conflictmod for X3: Terran Conflict adds news services for each race. The Terran version, Terran Morning News, is a satire of Fox News as a whole and Glenn Beck's and Alex Jones' shows in particular, what with rampant paranoia, conspiracy theories, and subtle or not-so-subtle discrimination (Muslims in post-9/11 Fox News have been replaced by Aldrinites in Terran Morning News, for example).

One mod for Fallout: New Vegas adds a radio station hosted by "Glen Morgan," a racist, pro-gun, right-wing Enclave supporter.

Deus Ex: Invisible War featured a radio show called Talk Bullet, featuring an obnoxious pundit named Brett Steed who interrogates guests and then cuts them off before they can answer any of his questions. In a later chapter, he gets his comeuppance when he tries to pull his schtick on Saman, who refuses to play along.

Dm C Devil May Cry has Bob Barbas of Raptor News Network, a thinly-veiled parody of Bill O'Reilly and the Fox News Network. He's actually one of Mundus' minions who specifically spews propaganda that put their enemies (such as Dante) in a bad light.

One of the radio stations in The Conduit stars Timothy Browning, a right-wing talk radio parody who blames everything on liberals.

"Where are the Democrats on this matter? What have they done to make this country safe? What really needs to be done here is the Democrats allowing the GOP to take charge in this time of crisis so no more lives will be spent needlessly!"

Western Animation

Beavis And Butthead has a Rush Limbaugh-type in Gus Baker, who invites the boys as guests on his talk show.

Young Justice has a cross between this trope and Marvel Comics' J. Jonah Jameson in the form of G. Gordon Godfrey. While he isn't overtly right wing, he is the human or Earth equivalent of a Nationalist, and deeply distrust the Justice League for their secrecy (which he isn't completely unfounded on) and disdainfully refers to members like Superman and the Martian Manhunter as "aliens". He uses his talk show as a soapbox and borders on yellow journalism and outright fear-mongering a lot of the time, and when the Reach show up he lavishes them with praise because of their good PR. In an interesting reversal, he actually turns on the Reach once their lies begin to get exposed, and in the finale it's heavily implied that like his comics counterpart he himself is an alien from Apokolips.

On Ultimate Spider-Man J. Jonah has a television show which essentially makes him one of these.

He's given a unique twist, though. He's NICE to MJ, when she makes a pro–Spider-Man video. In fact, he's one of the only two views she GOT.

Justice League features "Glorious" Gordon Godfrey in the episode "Eclipsed", who accuses the League of exploiting their fame for personal gain. Mind, after the latest world-saving feat from the League, his popularity nosedives and he's bumped to a 4 AM timeslot, just after the farm report.

The loudmouthed host of the talk show that appears on "Bart Mangled Banner". He continues asking the Simpsons if they hate America (and what specific part of it, as well) by yelling in their faces until Marge snaps.

Homer Simpson himself became one after a video of one of his rants went viral and was hired by a news channel. He became so popular he convinced people to wear gravy boats on their heads and almost endorsed Ted Nugent for president.

Recuring character and Limbaugh caricature Birch Barlow.

Birch Barlow: Mayor Quimby, you are well known sir, for your lenient stance on crime, but suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the basement, with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob-

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